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Yesterday | Broadcasting & Cable

WJLA's Bob Ryan to Get Big Send-Off

TV Washington plans a three-day tribute in its 11 p.m. newscast for Washington TV weather icon Bob Ryan, who is retiring.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, Democrat

Monday | Freshnews

Sally Ride National Tribute At Kennedy Center Tonight

NASA and Sally Ride Science are inviting journalists to tonight's "Sally Ride: A Lifetime of Accomplishment, A Champion of Science Literacy," a national tribute to America's first woman in space.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, NASA, Space, John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Democrat

Fri May 17, 2013

CBS News

8-year-old fights to get WWII vet recognition he deserves

SALISBURY, Md. -- Whenever 87-year-old Charles Mowbray visits North Salisbury Elementary in Salisbury, Md., this World War II Navy sailor brings a boatload of stories -- like the one about how he helped rescue some men after a kamikaze attack.

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Related Topix: US Senate, US Politics, Democrat, US News, Salisbury, MD

Thu May 16, 2013

Government Executive

FBI Faces Furloughs in 2014

FBI Director Robert Mueller told the Senate Appropriations subcommittee that oversees the Justice Department the FBI would have no choice but to force unpaid leave, thereby putting the country at risk.

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Related Topix: US News, US Federal Bureau of Investigation, Robert Mueller, Terrorism, US Politics, US Senate, Democrat

CNN

Labor nominee voted out of committee on party line vote

Thomas Perez, President Obama's nominee to be labor secretary, was approved by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee on Thursday on a straight party line vote.

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Related Topix: US News, Tom Harkin, US Politics, US Senate, Democrat, Lamar Alexander, Republican

National Public Radio

Congress: Where Food Reforms Go To Die?

Two seemingly common-sense, bipartisan food reforms have gotten mugged on Capitol Hill in recent days.

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, US Senate, Democrat, Edward Royce, Republican, US House of Representatives, Steve King, Agriculture, Science, Debbie Stabenow

Tue May 14, 2013

The Heritage Foundation

Quiet Before the Storm: CBO Reports $642 Billion Deficit in 2013

At $642 billion, the Congressional Budget Office reports , the 2013 deficit will be lower by $200 billion than previously forecast.

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Related Topix: Social Security, Personal Finance, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Democrat

Stuff.co.nz

FBI to probe tax agency's actions

The decision by America's IRS to reveal to a small room of tax lawyers last week that it had targeted conservative groups is now itself the subject of a Congressional inquiry.

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Related Topix: Tax, US News, US Politics, US Senate, Democrat

Mon May 13, 2013

KHGI

Sen. Johanns Calls for Hearing on IRS Political Targeting

Sen. Mike Johanns has sent a letter to Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Barbara Mikulski requesting that the committee hold a hearing concerning the recently revealed practices of the Internal Revenue Service targeting specific conservative groups.

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Related Topix: Tax, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, Senator Mike Johanns, Democrat

National Organization for Women

New Path to Ratify the ERA: Three-State Strategy Bill Introduced

Advocates of the Equal Rights Amendment were cheered Thursday when a bipartisan resolution was introduced by Sens.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, Democrat, Senator Mark Kirk, Republican, Liberal Political News

Sat May 11, 2013

Martinsburg Journal

Ribbon cutting celebrates vino trail

Red, white and blue ribbon was cut and glasses of red and white wines were lifted to celebrate the official opening of the Antietam Highlands Wine Trail.

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Related Topix: Wine, Drink, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Democrat, Clear Spring, MD, US House of Representatives, Representative John Delaney, Maryland Government, Maryland

Fri May 10, 2013

Final Call

Activists outraged over - Monsanto Protection Act'

Food safety advocates are outraged over revelations that U.S. Congress and President Barack Obama approved an act that includes a provision purporting to strip federal courts of the ability to prevent the spread of genetically modified organisms .

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Related Topix: US News, Food Science, US Politics, Barack Obama, Agriculture, Science, Jon Tester, US Senate, Democrat

DC Military

IHD Employees Honored in Annual Award Ceremony

Naval Surface Warfare Center, Indian Head Division recognized nearly 90 of its employees on May 1, 2013, at its annual Honorary Awards ceremony held at the Indian Head Pavilion.

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Related Topix: US Politics, Democrat, Indian Head, MD

Thu May 09, 2013

WebCPA

Senator Pushes IRS to Crack Down on Payroll Service Fraud

Senate Appropriations Committee chair Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., urged Internal Revenue Service Acting Commissioner Steven T. Miller to do more to keep unscrupulous payroll service providers from cheating small businesses out of unremitted withholding taxes during an IRS budget hearing.

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Related Topix: Tax, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Democrat, Small Business, Personal Finance, Bel Air, MD

Gazette.net

For Frederick tower, a sorry legislative story

In the military there is a phrase unfit for publication in a family newspaper to describe how Congress has handled the sequester-induced furlough of air traffic controllers and the planned closure of small contract towers like the one at Frederick Municipal Airport.

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Related Topix: US News, Flying, Life, Hobbies, US Politics, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Representative John Delaney, Benjamin Cardin, US Senate, Maryland, Opinion

Wed May 08, 2013

WTAX-AM Springfield

Lawmakers demand military leaders curb sex assaults

Senators alarmed by a jump in sex crimes in the U.S. military called on Wednesday for a cultural overhaul of the Air Force and a lawmaker exposed a web page used by Marines that she said depicted a "culture of misogyny and sexual harassment." "I'm just fed up with this sexual assault stuff," Senator Barbara Mikulski told a hearing with top Air ... (more)

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Related Topix: US Military, US Air Force, US Marine Corps, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Democrat, Social Software

Reuters

U.S. Air Force officer accused of sex assault decorated with medals

The Air Force officer charged in a sex assault case this week had served in Iraq and Afghanistan, received five non-combat medals and passed a review of his military records before he was selected to head a sexual assault prevention and response branch.

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Related Topix: US Military, US Air Force, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Democrat

Alabama Live

Is Congress crippling the Space Launch System - and NASA - with budget sequestration?

Sen. Barbara Mikulski is one of NASA's most powerful supporters as chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, but a new report says she is worried that budget sequestration could cripple the Space Launch System being developed in Huntsville, AL., and possibly NASA's entire mission.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Space, US News, US Politics, US Senate, Democrat, NASA, Republican, Richard Shelby

Patch.com

NSA Breaks Ground on Massive Computing Center

The National Security Agency this week formally broke ground on its second high-performance computing center, a 600,000 square-foot behemoth designed to help protect the nation's digital infrastructure.

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Related Topix: Science, Computer Science, Science / Technology, High Performance Computing, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Democrat

Mon May 06, 2013

Gazette.net

Frederick tower to remain open

Maryland's U.S. senators are confident that an assurance last week from U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray Lahood will mean that the 149 small airport control towers - including one at Frederick Municipal Airport - will remain open for the rest of the federal fiscal year.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Representative John Delaney, US Senate, Benjamin Cardin, Maryland, Federal Aviation Administration